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A Sequential Approach to Lexical Sign Description

Filhol, Michael ORCID button Filhol, Michael | Braffort, Annelies


Volume:
Proceedings of the LREC2006 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios
Venue:
Genoa, Italy
Date:
28 May 2006
Pages:
7–10
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:
CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:
06002

Abstract

Sign description systems able precisely to detail how a lexical unit of a sign language is performed are not that numerous. Plus, in the prospect of implementing such a description model for automatic sign generation by virtual characters, visual notation systems such as SignWriting, however accurate they are, cannot be used. The Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys) (Hanke, 1989) together with its more computer-friendly super-set SiGML (Signing Gesture Markup Language) is about as advanced a model we could find, and yet some problems still have to be tackled in order to obtain an appropriate sign description system. Indeed, based on Stokoe-type parameters, it assumes every sign can/must be described with the same fixed set of parameters, each of which would be given a discrete value. However, we argue that not all signs require all parameters, and that not all the parameters that are needed can be given at the same time in the same way. This work underlines three problems we see with Stokoe-like descriptions, and suggests a new approach to handling sign language lexicon description.

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@inproceedings{filhol:06002:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Filhol, Michael and Braffort, Annelies},
  title     = {A Sequential Approach to Lexical Sign Description},
  pages     = {7--10},
  editor    = {Vettori, Chiara},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2006} 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios},
  maintitle = {5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2006)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Genoa, Italy},
  day       = {28},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/06002.pdf}
}
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